AMISTAD
Bound for Canaan (Apr., $27.95) by Fergus Bordewich depicts America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired political movement for change: the Underground Railroad. 60,000 first printing.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Happiness: A History (Apr., $25) by Darrin McMahon charts the cheery emotion's evolution in Western thought. 25,000 first printing.
BASIC BOOKS
The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon in 1948; Learning the Secrets of Power (Mar., $26) by Lance Morrow recalls the three young congressmen, each at major turning points. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism (May, $26.95) by Timothy Naftali criticizes America's efforts in counterterrorism and claims that democracies are ineffective against terrorists. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. Author tour.
BBC BOOKS (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (Mar., $30) by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira examines Britain's medieval society in text and pictures.
BERKLEY
The Night Attila Died: Solving the Murder of Attila the Hun (July, $23.95) by Michael A. Babcock reconstructs the assassination during the waning of the Roman Empire.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS
Buried by the Times (Mar., $29) by Laurel Leff claims that the New York Times failed in its coverage of European Jews before and during the Holocaust.
God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law (Aug., $28) by Marci Hamilton argues that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that cover everyone else, regardless of religious conduct or belief.
CARROLL & GRAF
A Short History of Progress (Apr., $18) by Ronald Wright asserts that only by breaking with the pattern of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated since the Stone Age can we avoid the onset of a new Dark Age.
CINCO PUNTOS PRESS
Ringside Seat to the Mexican Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez: 1893—1923 (July, $24.95) by David Dorado Romo traces the upheaval of the two sister cities.
CITADEL
The Conspiracy to Stop the Kennedys (July, $22.95) by Matthew Smith exposes more than just the conspiracies behind the murders of J.F.K. and R.F.K.
COLLECTORS PRESS
Chocolate: The Sweet History (Mar., $39.95) by Beth Kimmerle profiles America's top producers and discovers some new ones.
COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (May, $24.50) by Russell Jacoby resuscitates the iconoclastic utopian spirit.
CORNELL UNIV. PRESS
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (July, $49.95) by Jan Assmann examines ancient Egypt's religion of death.
CROWN
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America (May, $24.95) by Les Standiford captures the power and danger of steel manufacturing through two vivid personalities. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
Kinsey's Attic: The Shocking Story of How One Man's Perversions Changed the World (July, $24.95) by Judith Reisman blames many ills on what she says is a bogus science of sexology. A WND Book.
DA CAPO PRESS
Hollow Earth: The History of an Idea (July, $24.95) by Michael Standish is a history of the notion that Earth has an empty interior.
The Last of the Cold War Spies (July, $29.95) by Roland Perry chronicles the life of Michael Straight, the only American in Britain's Cambridge spy ring.
IVAN R. DEE
Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience (May, $27.50) by Andrew Schlesinger covers statism, aristocracy, racism, sexism and ethnocentrism.
DUFOUR EDITIONS
The Lighthouses of Ireland: A Personal History (May, $39.95) by Richard M. Taylor deals with romantic, mystical and tragic associations.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, the Yankees and the Battle for the Soul of a City (Apr., $25) by Jonathan Mahler recalls the year of "Son of Sam," the citywide power outage and the battle between Reggie Jackson and Yankee manager Billy Martin.
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves (June, $24) by Giles Milton returns to the horrors of 18th-century Algiers, Tunis and Morocco.
FSG/HILL & WANG
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America: "The Sun Never Shined on a Cause of Greater Worth" (Aug., $25) by Harvey J. Kaye follows the revolutionary spirit that has prevailed throughout American history. Advertising.
The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World (Aug., $23) by Frank Lambert. America's conflict with piratical states in the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison. Advertising.
FORGE
American Heroes: Amelia Earhart (Mar., $21.95) by Lori Van Pelt probes new technologies that may unravel the flyer's mysterious disappearance. Ad/promo.
FOURTH ESTATE
Evening in the Palace of Reason (Mar., $23.95) by James Gaines tracks the clash between belief and reason through the lives of Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great.
FREE PRESS
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: How an Earthquake Remapped America and Rewrote Its History (Mar., $27) by Jay Feldman. The great series of quakes also altered the course of the War of 1812. Author publicity.
GALLAUDET UNIV. PRESS
The History of Inclusion in the United States (May, $55) by Robert L. Osgood assesses the debates that ensued when inclusion was introduced into special education.
GETTY PUBLICATIONS
The Past from Above: Aerial Views of Great Archaeological Sites (May, $65), photos by Georg Gerster, pictures 249 notable places in more than 50 countries.
HARPERCOLLINS
Perfect Soldiers (May, $25.95) by Terry McDermott investigates the lives of the men responsible for the 9/11 attacks. 40,000 first printing.
The Rescue Artist (July, $25.95) by Edward Dolnick concerns the theft of Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, and its recovery. 50,000 first printing.
Shockwave (Aug., $26.95) by Stephen Walker is a minute-by-minute account of the bombing of Hiroshima, told from multiple perspectives. 50,000 first printing.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
The Bomb: A Life (Mar., $27.95) by Gerard J. DeGroot portrays those involved with making the atomic bomb.
Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs (Mar., $24.95) by Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind illuminates what modern science has discovered about the lives and deaths of ancient Egyptians.
Irresistible Empire: America's March Through Twentieth-Century Europe (Apr., $29.95) by Victoria de Grazia describes the triumph of American consumerism over Europe's bourgeois civilization.
HENRY HOLT
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America (Apr., $27.50) by Stacy Schiff tracks Ben's eight-year mission that bankrolled the American Revolution.
HOLT/TIMES BOOKS
Becoming Justice Blackmun: A Supreme Court Justice and His Times (May, $23) by Linda Greenhouse looks at the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front (May, $26) by Constantine Pleshakov draws on newly available documents about Hitler's brutal attack on the Soviet Union. Ad/promo.
INDIANA UNIV. PRESS
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth and the Great American Tragedy (Mar., $35) by Thomas Goodrich takes a detailed approach to the assassination.
KNOPF
Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble (Apr., $25) by Roger Cohen tells the story of 350 POWs singled out as Jews who were sent to the concentration camp Berga in eastern Germany. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Aug., $30) by Charles C. Mann claims that more people lived in the Americas in 1491 than in Europe. 40,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 8-city author tour.
LITTLE, BROWN
The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfights, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane and Discovery (June, $26.95) by Martin Dugard is reportedly the first book to cover these adventures. Ad/promo. Author tour.
LOUISIANA STATE UNIV. PRESS
France in 1938 (May, $39.95) by Benjamin F. Martin portrays life in France on the eve of WWII. Advertising.
MBI
The Six Men Who Built the Modern Auto Industry (May, $27.95) by Richard A. Johnson singles out Henry Ford II, Soichiro Honda, Eberhard von Kuenheim, Lee Iacocca, Ferdinand Piech and Robert Lutz. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
MERCER UNIV. PRESS
Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957—1967 (Mar.; $55, paper $25) by Harry G. Lefever studies the small, dedicated group of students and faculty that risked lives and careers to make Atlanta and the South a more just society.
MERCURY BOOKS
The History of Torture and Execution (Mar., $25) by Jean Kellaway ranges from early civilizations to the present.
Opium: A Journey Through Time (May, $25) by Colin Shearing explores the fragile poppy flower and how its essence both relieves and causes human suffering.
NEW PRESS
Chinese America: A History in the Making (Aug., $25.95) by Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic considers one of America's most distinctive communities.
W.W. NORTON
The Plot: The Secret Story ofThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion (May, $23.95) by Will Eisner debunks the propaganda about Jews planning to take over the world. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo (July, $25.95) by Daniel Liebowitz, M.D., and Charles Pearson recounts a nightmare of cruelty, starvation and cannibalism.
NEW YORK UNIV. PRESS
American Freemasons: Three Centuries of Building American Communities (Mar., $29.95) by Mark A. Tabbert illustrates the movement's history from its origins in 17th-century Scotland.
ONEWORLD
Amir Khusraw by Sunil Sharma,
Shaykh Mufid by Tamima Bayhom-Daou and
Abu Nuwas (May, $40 each) by Philip Kennedy are among nine new titles in the Makers of the Muslim World series edited by Patricia Crone.
OTHER PRESS
The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories (June, $20) by Hanna Krall. Twelve nonfiction tales involve love, hatred, compassion and indifference.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
John Jay: Founding Father (Mar., $29.95) by Walter Stahr is said to be the first full-length biography in 60 years.
The Gentleman Bomber: The Chilling Tale of a Confederate Spy, Con Artist and Mass Murderer (May, $24.95) by Ann Larabee focuses on Alexander "Sandy" Keith.
PENGUIN/CHAMBERLAIN BROS.
13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shooting (May, $19.95) by Philip Caputo re-examines that horrifying moment in U.S. history.
On the Waterfront: The Pulitzer Prize—Winning Articles That Inspired the Classic Film and Transformed the New York Harbor (June, $18.95) by Malcolm Johnson collects these revelatory pieces for the first time.
PI GLOBAL PUBLISHING LTD. (dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
The 1970s Scrapbook (Mar., $27.95), compiled by Robert Opie, records such achievements as platform shoes and disco mania.
PLEXUS
The Underground Railroad, 2005 Edition (Mar., $49.50) by William Still collects the firsthand accounts of slaves escaping North, which was first published in 1872.
PRINCETON UNIV. PRESS
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Apr., $29.95) by Gil Troy integrates the story of his presidency with the decade's cultural icons and watershed moments.
PUBLICAFFAIRS
Shadowplay: The Politics and Passion of William Shakespeare and His Era (May, $26) by Clare Asquith places Will firmly in his political and historical context, showing him to be a radical dissident chronicler of a turbulent century.
RANDOM HOUSE
Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (Mar., $25.95) by Mitchell Zuckoff. A charming scoundrel used the "rob Peter to pay Paul" concept to bilk people out of millions of dollars. Author tour.
The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves (Apr., $25.95) by Andrew Levy recounts the life of the Virginia aristocrat who demonstrated by example that emancipation was a practical choice, and indeed possible. Author tour.
RIO NUEVO
The Legend of the O.K. Corral (Apr., $12.95) by Ed Finn. This new take on an old story is part of the Look West series library.
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
The Deadly Bet: LBJ, Vietnam and the 1968 Election (Apr., $24.95) by Walter LeFeber embodies perspectives from R.F.K., Eugene McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr., Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
Einstein on Race and Racism (July, $23.95) by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor assembles the scientist's little-known writings against racism. Advertising.
SHERIDAN HOUSE
Maritime Britain (May, $25.95) by Paul Heiney. Color photos and artwork are luscious paeans to the U.K.'s 250 maritime museums and 350 historic ships.
SHOEMAKER & HOARD
Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time (Apr., $23) by Michael Downing is a humorous and anecdotal history.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
East Palace Avenue: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (Apr., $26) by Jennet Conant describes the rigors faced by those working to create the atomic bomb on a barren mesa outside Santa Fe, N.Mex. 150,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
1776 (May, $35) by David McCullough is the Pulitzer Prize winner's re-creation of the turning point of the Revolutionary War. 1.25-million first printing. Ad/promo. BOMC, History BC, LG, DBC, QPB selections. 15-city author tour.
SOURCEBOOKS
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution (Apr., $24.95) by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth Gerber Blumrosen is a chilling history of the scourge. 30,000 first printing. Author publicity.
The Young Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Madison, Hamilton and the Crisis That Built the Constitution (May, $24.95) by Charles Cerami recounts the maneuvers and strategies behind our founding document. 40,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.
STACKPOLE
Our Moses: Thomas Garrett and the Underground Railroad (Aug., $24.95) by William Ecenbarger profiles the man who led 2,700 slaves to freedom, but consequently lost his business, property and liberty.
TEXAS A&M UNIV. PRESS
From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck,La Belle (Apr., $39.95) by James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner is a nautical adventure in Texas's Matagorda Bay.
TEXAS TECH UNIV. PRESS
White Justice in Arizona: Apache Murder Trials in the Nineteenth Century (May, $27.95) by Clare V. McKanna Jr. delves into the federal and state government treatment of Apaches in court.
THAMES & HUDSON
Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History (Apr., $34.95) by Alistar Moffat begins 10,000 years ago at the close of the Ice Age and proceeds through the rise of Celtic and Pictish cultures. BOMC, History BC and Discovery Channel selections.
THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS
Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation (Aug., $25.95) by Fred Rosen helps explain America's get-rich-quick obsession.
TIME INC. HOME ENTERTAINMENT
The Making of America: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Nation (July, $24.95) by Time magazine editors gathers stories behind Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Molly Pitcher and others. Advertising.
UNIV. OF CHICAGO PRESS
The American Enemy: A Story of French Anti-Americanism (May, $35) by Roger Philippe reviews the long history of hostile sentiments.
UNIV. OF IOWA PRESS
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (May, $34.95) by Charlotte Canning recalls the shows that toured from 1904 into the Depression that helped unify smalltown America.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
The Cherokee Nation: A History (June, $24.95) by Robert J. Conley claims to be the first history written by a tribe member and endorsed by the Cherokee Nation.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac (Mar., $29.95) by Josephine F. Pacheco. D.C.-area slaves were apprehended after attempting to flee by sailing up the Chesapeake in 1848.
UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The Choice of the Jews Under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance (Apr., $35) by Adam Rayski combats clichéd images of Jewish victims.
UNIV. OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival (May, $27.95) by Brian McGinty reflects upon this legendary southwestern tragedy.
UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account (May, $27.50) by Harry Mulisch. The Dutch author's reportage is now available in English for the first time.
UNIV. OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown (Apr., $TBA) by Helen C. Rountree represents the Indian experience with early English settlers, from wary initial encounters to warfare and eventual loss of native sovereignty.
UNIV. PRESS OF COLORADO
The Rise of the Silver Queen: Georgetown, Colorado, 1859—1896 (Mar.; $50, paper $24.95) by Liston E. Leyendecker et al. traces the town's history, from brief fame to postboom struggles.
UNIV. PRESS OF KANSAS
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance (Apr., $29.95) by Richard J. Ellis suggests the pledge reflects an insecure nation rather than a confident one.
VERSO
Wobblies: A Graphic History (Apr., $23), edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman, is timed for the centenary of this major labor movement.
VIKING
Martha Washington: An American Life (July, $24.95) by Patricia Brady. Primary sources reconstruct the life of the first First Lady. 5-city author tour.
The Ruin of J. Robert: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race (July, $25.95) by Priscilla J. McMillan relies upon newly declassified U.S. government documents. Author tour.
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (July, $27.95) by Gary B. Nash reviews the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage and hope that animated the revolutionary decades. 4-city author tour.
WALKER & CO.
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Apr., $27) by Diana Preston traces the human chain reaction that helped build the bomb. Ad/promo. Author tour.
NEIL WILSON (dist. by Interlink)
The Heart of Glasgow (Mar., $24.95) by Jack House. A newspaperman captures his hometown's past.
YALE UNIV. PRESS
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (Mar., $27.50) by John Ehrman follows the changes from post-WWII liberalism to today's competitive, technology-driven society.
The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo (June, $35) by Gary May unravels the murder of civil rights worker Liuzzo, shot at the end of Martin Luther King's 1965 voting rights march.
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa (June, $35) by David E. Murphy clarifies the intelligence war between Hitler and Stalin from 1939 to 1941.
